Guy who first hacked the iPhone just built a self-driving car in his garage

Guy who first hacked the iPhone just built a self-driving car in his garage

December 17, 2015 by Brett Smith Some of the biggest auto and tech companies in the world have spent countless dollars and nearly a decade in some cases to build a self-driving car, and all that must sound very cute to George Hotz. The 26-year-old hacking icon (who was the first person to hack an iPhone), along with his techie roommates, has built an effective and functioning self-driving car in about a month. According to Bloomberg News, two developments make Hotz’s system achievable. The first is the current quality of off-the-shelf computing power. Hotz uses graphics chips that typically power video game consoles to process data from the car’s camera system and Intel chips to run calculations for his artificial intelligence software. Hotz said he financed the car through winnings…